Items tagged with: Bonhams

Tupelo Automobile Museum. Photos by Stephen Mancuso. Opened in 2002, the Tupelo Automobile Museum in Tupelo, Mississippi, was the dream of broadcast entrepreneur Frank K. Spain, who began collecting ...

Photos courtesy Bonhams. These days, do-it-yourself implies building a headboard out of pallet wood. When the automobile was still in its infancy, the term called for a wider range of skillsets in or...

1984 Buell RW750. Photos courtesy Bonhams Auctions. Erik Buell’s first foray into motorcycle manufacturing came as much by accident as by design. When Barton Engineering, a manufacturer of racing mot...

Breese Paris roadster (L) and Breese Paris teardrop roadster. Photos courtesy Bonhams. As an automotive marque, Breese may be unfamiliar to even the most passionate Brass Era enthusiasts. Founded by ...

The 1964 Lang-Cooper II Super King Cobra. Photos courtesy Bonhams. When Carroll Shelby realized there was prize money for the taking in a USAC-sanctioned West Coast “Fall Series,” he contacted John C...

The 1965 Lang-Cooper II Super King Cobra. Photos courtesy Bonhams. When Carroll Shelby realized there was prize money for the taking in a USAC-sanctioned West Coast “Fall Series,” he contacted John C...

Photo courtesy Bonhams. As the family of Piet den Hartogh indicated when they decided to close his museum dedicated to Ford vehicles a year and a half ago, they will sell the entire collection all at...

Photos courtesy Bonhams. Of all the ways to load a car onto a truck for transportation, German utility truck builder Ruthmann may have come up with one of the oddest and yet most practical method for...

French automaker Delahaye introduced its 135 model in 1935, and – war years excluded – variations remained in production until 1954. Delahaye 135s were frequently rebodied by French coachbuilders, bu...

1951 Vincent Black Lightning. Photoraphs courtesy Bonhams. Although the Jack Ehret-raced 1951 Vincent is not the most expensive motorcycle ever sold, it is the most expensive motorcycle ever bought a...

Photos courtesy Bonhams. Apparently, when your daddy’s the local dealer for unusual cars like the Israeli Sabra, you can afford to be choosy regarding which cars daddy gets to gift you. Or, at least,...

1968 Molzon Corvair. Photos courtesy Bonhams Auctions. In 1963, GM designer William “Bill” Molzon set out to build a car of his own, with some rather ambitious goals: It would accelerate faster than ...

Photos courtesy Bonhams. Not intentionally, of course, but the brothers Santler couldn’t help but break existing British road laws when they first ventured out in the little car they called “Malverni...

By 1913, Stevens-Duryea had established itself as one of America’s finest automakers, selling touring cars and limousines at prices comparable to marques like Pierce-Arrow and Packard. Just 1,000 aut...

CSX 3359, the second-to-last 427 Cobra built. Photos courtesy Bonhams. Carroll Shelby was good at building fast cars, and his proficiency as a salesman is the stuff of legend. Record keeping wasn’t r...

Photos courtesy Bonhams. While Jack Sears won two separate British Saloon Car Championships, including the very first one in 1958, it was his latter championship which would prove the most notorious....

1959 Cadillac Broadmoor Skyview. Photos courtesy of Bonhams. Opened by founder Spencer Penrose in 1918, the Broadmoor in Colorado Springs, Colorado, was intended to be one of the finest luxury hotels...

1912 Henderson Four. Photo courtesy Mecum Auctions. January is typically a good time of the year to visit Las Vegas, Nevada, particularly if one is shopping for vintage motorcycles. Auction firms Bon...

Photos courtesy Bonhams. In 1957, 16-year old Elon Jack “E.J.” Potter had the crazy, brilliant idea to drop a small-block Chevy V-8 into a motorcycle frame. It took another three years for Potter to ...